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by k_roy 14 days ago
> If you wonder how people could ever vote for someone like Trump, I think it’s got something to do with that kind of rhetoric.

So the rhetoric is the problem here, and not the reasons the rhetoric exists?

The rhetoric is in response to the objectively bad actions of this administration. If nothing else, the rank and foul disregard for so much of the Constitution and flagrant disregard for basic human rights and dignity.

Remember the tan suit? The sleepy Joe Biden?

Frankly, it's completely disingenious to ignore the fact that the leader of this movement, gets on his social media and says the most foul things possible every day.. and then you try to indict both sides.

A rando on the internet saying garbage is not the same as the leader of the whole movement, because that just empowers the people who follow him.

Nobody that you should take seriously said anything bad about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

But when the President gets on social media and says he's glad people are dead, or that it's okay to wipe out a civilization, and his base cheers for him, that's not rhetoric and we should just ignore it?

Sorry. That's just completely intellectually dishonest